The Sunday herald., 1887-01-30
SOME CONSIDERATIONS.

Al the Krmes Monday night some young men
whose families have been ''ln society," through at
least two or three administrations were deplorlng
the fact that many shop girls had been permitted to
take part IN the dances "ff they dress the line at
snop-grls I wouldn't mind, said cynical looking
old gentleman who made one OF the group. "But
even shopboys and ONCE boys seem to be leaders In
H. Why, tonight saw fellow coming in here
with hnely. dressed lady on hts arm and an air OF
dgnined sef.possessiOn on his face that Cabinet
olcer might envy, and he actually seemed to he re-
garded with great consideration by the people about
the door. too. and think was shown TO a box.
We'll, would you believe II, the last time saw that
fellow before tonight he was IN hls shlrt-sleeves
sweeping out newspaper Office mp In Albany, N. Y.
His name Is Manning, and he's got q Job up at the
Treasury Department now. Yes, there he Is In that
upper box, continued the old gentleman, pointing
across the Theatre. The gtieved young arstocrats
looked and beheld Secretary Manning .and his wife
In the box indicated, Tho cynical old gentleman
smiled crlmly, and walked away, while the young
man allowed the conversation to drift into other
channels. The old gentleman had not seen Secretary
Manning before for nearly forty years.
John 7. Raymond seemed hardly to have had time
to get finally out OF his difficulties, grease, paint. and
impossible side whskers, as "The Woman uater,n
on Monday night, before he was firmly braced
against the wall at the National Theatre, feasting
they wore in the kirmcs. lie was quickly
surrounded, OF course, and some one
who had sat out The performance at AL.
baughs alluded TO his promplness In getting
out after the fall OF the curtain. "Yes, 10 do q
thing at all | always try to Ito 1t promptly said
John T., coming down heavily on every second
word or SO AMI making at the same time his charac-
terstic oblique outstruke with the left hand, which
hung by his side. "Promptness saved my own and
my tfpfa ifa fayv u, ir.ya Wa, uir.
we were going from Fort Worth to San Antonio one
night 10y stage Robbers stopped us. was lying
back snoozing away like good fellow. The trsi
thing knew my wife screamed insanely; some one
had pressed the cold muzzle OF revolver against
her cheek. Then voice said, Throw up your
hands, and be prompt about it. That was my
style; was prompt; showed my two hands clear
through the top Of the stage, as you newspaper fe
lows would say, not necessarily for publication but
as an evidence of good faith. Then the driver told
the hghway-geneman who was, and he yelled,
'Oh, old Raymond, Is 1t? You go long. See you
In San Antonio. And they rode away and let the
stage proceed just then Representative Archie
Bliss came along, aud John T. wanted TO match
dollars with him on top OF his silk hat.
Chief Justice Morrison II. Waite and Col John p.
Walt, Representative in Congress from the Third
Connecticut District, though they spell their names
differently, ofthe same family and cousins Their
grandfather had four sons, who seem to have be-
come divided on the question of the proper spelling
of the family name. The eldest and the youngest
believed In the final g, and so spelled their name.
The two middle boys thought the way their father
spelled 1t was good enough for them, and would
have no q in theirs. But II came to pass that when
the father died the eldest and the youngest sons
erected tombstone over mis- grave aud had Gu,
thereon the name with the final g. The other boys
placed a stone above their mothers last resting
place and had the name chiseled on 1t as to them
seemed right. And to this day the gravestones
stand side by side In the Old cemetery at Lyme,
Conn, the husbands name spelled with an e, the
wife's without. Chief Justice Waite is OF the
eldest boy; Representative Wait Is a son of one
OF the middle pair.
The Representative, though OF almost patrnrchal
age and The Oldest man in the House, having been
born in lsll retains all his faculties In excellent
condition aud thinks nothing of walking to the Capi
to from his lodgings at the Hamilton House. His
hair and beard are pure white, but his face Is full
and flushed with health, his eye is keen aud bright,
and he steps oil as smartly as most m.n with half
his burden of years. ON the ith of March, when he
completes his sixth term in Congress, he will end
his public career, which has been long and varied
one and retire TO Norwich to pass the remainder Of
his life in well.earned quiet
Col. John Hay has added to his collection of mis-.
torcal curiosities an album containing the photo
graphs and autographs OF something like a hundred
Of the celebrities OF the war PERIOD Many of those
who survive would scarcely recognize themselves.
so queer and immature do they look in the pictures Of
twenty five years ago. Lincoln and his Cabinet Of
course are there and nearly all the great generals
OF the Union armies. Portraits are there also OF
men whose names were then much in the mouth OF
fame, but failed of transmission to the new genera
ton. There are few, too who seem to have stopped
growing old when the was closing, and look
now precisely as they did twenty-five years ago
Among these are Simon Cameron, one OF the very
few who have come down to us from that heroic
generation. Many now grizzled or gray, scant Of
scalplocks and wrinkled of front, appear in these
photographs with dark and bushy boards, domes Of
thought well thatched from the weather, foreheads
yet smooth and eye.corners untrodden Of the crow
1t Is curious to note how many men who now in ag.
are justly called handsome were then not at all
prepossesslng to look upon. Probably the most
notable instance is Blaine, whose photograph shows
him to he rather queer-lookDg, shock headed in
divdual, with none OF that sleek, dignined, and
well Kept air which later years have brought him
"Snnset" Cox, toD shows up as very peculiar per-
sonage, while Fltz,JUhn Porter, full-bearded and
sodierly OF bearng looks boldly out reckless of the
coming years OF calumny and injustice which are to
break and blanch him.
Actors are supposed TO realize Oscar Wide's ideal
aud make themselves instruments on which every
wind of passion may freely play; aud 80 to an eX
tent they do, some, alas. to their own speedy de-
struct0n. But the actors who achieve real great.
in their art nsuae themselves, as 1t were, and
learn to play with the deadly llghinings OF passion
as securely as the oriental snake-charmer plays
with his faugless python. Thus 1t Is that we mud
successful players, while living IN an atmosphere OF
Arcadian sentimentality, come 10 have as hrm a
grip on their finances as the most hard -hended
hard-flsted money-geter to be met IN the marts OF
trade. There are exceptions, however, and
conspicuous among them is Edwin Booth. How
many great actors or artists are there who would
year after year sacrifice thousands OF dollars TO Il
mere sentiment, as he has done by his persistent re-
fusal to come 10 Washington? That he should
have dlsliked to visit Washington for many years
after the shocking tragedy of the 18th of April was
NATURAL and perhaps discreet his part but for n T.
teen years there has been really good reason for h
| action. That he persists In his refusal shows his
nightly mouthings OF hollow sentiment have not cal
loused his heart.
II s not generally known that two seasons ago an
extraordinary effort was made TO induce Booth Ia
come TO Washington. petition was gotten up
headed by no less a name than that of President
Arthur, followed by those of the members OF The
Cabinet. Justices OF the Supreme Court, General OF
tHe army, anu ScHilOIn anu VI lHc hOubt
IN plenty, and conveyed by special messenger to MIR
| Booth. The petition urged him strongly to pui
aside his prejudice and assured him of such recep
tion actor got here. In addition, Manager
Albaugh agreed TO give him practically the gross
receipts OF the engagement. But all Ia vain. Even
| this appeal than which no more nattering one was
ever made TO an actor, his deep rooted prejudice
| sisted. That rejected petition will be the proudes
legacy Booth will leave TO his heirs.
Some cync calls attention TO the fact that an
agent OF the Society for the Prevention Of Cruelty
10 Animals has been making tour through Western
Pennsylvania 10 see that the mules are properly
cared for and not oyerworked In mines where ch
dren from six years up spend twelve to fourteen
hours day picking coal TO help their fathers exc
out an existence Washington cynics need not 70
away from home to hnd similar example OF the IN
constituencies OF so-called humani,aranlsm. We all
know what source OF steady anxiety the street
railway hil horses" to the agent OF the Society